Psalms 72:20. The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
This is the end of the second great division of the Book of the Psalms; it is therefore most appropriately closed with this verse: "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended." But I think that David, when he had reached this point, felt that he could not ask for anything more than he had already requested in this great petition. If the whole earth should be full of the glory of God, the psalmist would then have gained the utmost that he could desire. Is it not so with us also? If the name and the glory of Christ did but cover the whole earth, what more could we wish for? What more could we ask of God? Till that blessed consummation is reached, let us keep on praying, "Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen and Amen."
Psalms 72:20. The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
This is the end of the second great division of the Book of the Psalms; it is therefore most appropriately closed with this verse: "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended." But I think that David, when he had reached this point, felt that he could not ask for anything more than he had already requested in this great petition. If the whole earth should be full of the glory of God, the psalmist would then have gained the utmost that he could desire. Is it not so with us also? If the name and the glory of Christ did but cover the whole earth, what more could we wish for? What more could we ask of God? Till that blessed consummation is reached, let us keep on praying, "Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen and Amen."